High School and Beyond, 1980: A Longitudinal Survey of Students in the United States (ICPSR 7896)

Citation

United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics. High School and Beyond, 1980: A Longitudinal Survey of Students in the United States. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07896.v2

Summary

This data collection contains information from the first
wave of High School and Beyond (HSB), a longitudinal study of American
youth conducted by the National Opinion Research Center on behalf of
the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Data were
collected from 58,270 high school students (28,240 seniors and 30,030
sophomores) and 1,015 secondary schools in the spring of 1980. Many
items overlap with the NCES's NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE CLASS
OF 1972 (ICPSR 8085). The HSB study's data are contained in eight
files. Part 1 (School Data) contains data from questionnaires
completed by high school principals about various school attributes
and programs. Part 2 (Student Data) contains data from surveys
administered to students. Included are questionnaire responses on
family and religious background, perceptions of self and others,
personal values, extracurricular activities, type of high school
program, and educational expectations and aspirations. Also supplied
are scores on a battery of cognitive tests including vocabulary,
reading, mathematics, science, writing, civics, spatial orientation,
and visualization. To gather the data in Part 3 (Parent Data), a
subsample of the seniors and sophomores surveyed in HSB was drawn, and
questionnaires were administered to one parent of each of 3,367
sophomores and of 3,197 seniors. The questionnaires contain a number
of items in common with the student questionnaires, and there are a
number of items in common between the parent-of-sophomore and the
parent-of-senior questionnaires. This is a revised file from the one
originally released in Autumn 1981, and it includes 22 new
analytically constructed variables imputed by NCES from the original
survey data gathered from parents. The new data are concerned
primarily with the areas of family income, liabilities, and
assets. Other data in the file concentrate on financing of
post-secondary education, including numerous parent opinions and
projections concerning the educational future of the student,
anticipated financial aid, student's plans after high school, expected
ages for student's marriage and childbearing, estimated costs of
post-secondary education, and government financial aid policies. Also
supplied are data on family size, value of property and other assets,
home financing, family income and debts, and the age, sex, marital,
and employment status of parents, plus current income and expenses for
the student. Part 4 (Language Data) provides information on each
student who reported some non-English language experience, with data
on past and current exposure to and use of languages. In Parts 5-6,
there are responses from 14,103 teachers about 18,291 senior and
sophomore students from 616 schools. Students were evaluated by an
average of four different teachers who had the opportunity to express
knowledge or opinions of HSB students whom they had taught during the
1979-1980 school year. Part 5 (Teacher Comment Data: Seniors)
contains 67,053 records, and Part 6 (Teacher Comment Data: Sophomores)
contains 76,560 records. Questions were asked regarding the teacher's
opinions of their student's likelihood of attending college,
popularity, and physical or emotional handicaps affecting school
work. The sophomore file also contains questions on teacher
characteristics, e.g., sex, ethnic origin, subjects taught, and time
devoted to maintaining order. The data in Part 7 (Twins and Siblings
Data) are from students in the HSB sample identified as twins,
triplets, or other siblings. Of the 1,348 families included, 524 had
twins or triplets only, 810 contained non-twin siblings only, and the
remaining 14 contained both types of siblings. Finally, Part 8
(Friends Data) contained the first-, second-, and third-choice friends
listed by each of the students in Part 2, along with identifying
information allowing links between friendship pairs.

Citation

United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics. High School and Beyond, 1980: A Longitudinal Survey of Students in the United States. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07896.v2

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Date of Collection

Data Collection Notes

Two of the six codebooks are provided by ICPSR as Portable
Document Format (PDF) files.

Produced by the National Opinion Research Center, Chicago, Ill, 1980.

For ease of presentation, both the school and
student codebooks display a number of variables in a "collapsed" or
"bracketed" form. It should be noted, however, that the data
themselves have not been modified and are still in their original full
form.